Journal

 by Carol Ann Duffy   Silently on Christmas Eve, the turn of midnight's key; all the garden locked in ice – a silver frieze – except the winter cluster of the bees.   Flightless now and shivering, around their Queen...

It's getting close to Christmas feast day. Who better to ask advice from about glazing our ham than our neighbour three railway arches down, Nathan at the Butchery. Especially as Christmas ham is Nathan's favourite festive food. Firstly, Nathan cleared...

It's Christmas party season and so last week the London Honey Company team headed off to the delicious Oklava in Shoreditch to celebrate the year's achievements. It was a rare chance for us all to be around the same table...

It’s that time of year again when the trains are packed with people spluttering, sniffling and coughing as the rest of the carriage tries to shuffle away or duck. So if it’s you coughing how can you soothe the symptoms...

Take hope, the official count down to the days getting longer has begun. Perhaps you, or a little person near you, peeled open your first card window of treats today. Traditionally advent actually starts four Sundays before Christmas. Advent literally...

We love Christmas cake and find using heather honey in Christmas cake adds a depth of flavour. Personally I then like to eat it with a big lump of blue cheese.      Prep: 30 min        ...

Borage honey drizzled over blue cheese.   Here are three ways we bring pleasure into our lives over the gloomy winter with honey and beeswax candles:  1. BORAGE over blue This subtle honey goes wonderfully with the bold charactered piquant...

The beeswax candle is a symbol of the cold winter periods we have grown to love at the London Honey Company. With the clock change comes a mood change, the nights draw in and people begin to yield to the...

We thought that it was about time that we properly introduced the team's favourite member. Meet Teal, officially Steve's dog, he's now great friends with the the whole team and has become an integral part of the company. Teal often...

Since 1999 from our origins on London’s rooftops, we’ve travelled to the moors, down to the coast - siting beehives and befriending beekeepers, to source the most interesting pure honey. Now we’ve ventured past our shores and overseas to bring...

A couple of weeks ago we collected full boxes of a special favourite of ours from Shropshire, the strong and aromatic Ling heather honey. This honey has many health honey benefits. The most important being that it seems to be the only medicine which helps to stop Steve’s nephew’s hay-fever when he's up helping to lift honey boxes on the Long Mynd.